Nation: Senselessness in Georgia

During the two weeks that he was at Fort Benning, Ga., on Army reserve
duty as a lieutenant colonel last month, Lemuel Penn, 49, Negro
director of vocational high schools for the District of Columbia school
system, never set foot off the base. Reason: he did not want to be
responsibleeven inadvertentlyfor causing a racial incident. On the
night of July 10, his training completed, Penn set out for home with
two other Washington Negroes. They planned to drive straight on
through, stopping only for food and fuel.

They rolled through Atlanta, on through Athens, and into the lonely
hills of northeast...